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ذحل

ذَحْلٌ ذ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ ذَحَلٌ (Msb) Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite; or concealment of enmity, and violent hatred, in the heart; or retention of enmity in the heart, with watchfulness for an opportunity to indulge it or exercise it; syn. حِقْدٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and [simply] enmity: (S, K:) or blood-revenge; or retaliation of murder or homicide; or a seeking to revenge, or avenge, or retaliate, blood; syn. ثَأْرٌ: or a desire, or seeking, for retaliation of a crime or of enmity: (K:) pl. (of the former) ذُحُولٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and (of the latter, Msb) أَذْحَالٌ. (Mgh, Msb, K.) One says, طَلَبَ بِذَحْلِهِ, meaning بِثَأْرِهِ [i. e. He sought to obtain his bloodrevenge, or retaliation]. (S, Msb.) And عِنْدَهُ ذَحْلِى [He owes me my blood-revenge], meaning he is the slayer of my relation. (A in art. ثأر.) [See also a verse of Lebeed cited as an ex. of the preposition بِ.] ذَحَلٌ ذ : see the preceding paragraph.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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